Wow... that is the weirdest thing I've ever heard... I would suggest backing up everything while it's still running.. the anti virus must have a real foothold on the system... disabling it restored the system to a sort of default status with only one monitor.
If booting was so slow with it disabled, it's unlikely to be that at fault.. No idea where to go from here, apart from running a cleaner and maybe a defrag. Very, very mysterious. Darren. On 9 Oct 2014 15:43, "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, that was a VERY painful experience: > 1. My second screen (AOC USB monitor) stopped working after disabling the > anti-virus (now works after re-enabling). Absolutely no idea why. Shouldn't > be any connection between them. > 2. Bootup took ages - I could see the desktop icons redrawing pixel by > pixel, not just icon by icon. > 3. Windows Live Mail must have lost its index, since it claimed there were > no emails. It seems to have rebuilt the index now and all emails present > and correct. > 4. I disabled the wireless broadband for a while but the endless hard disk > activity just continued even when it and the antivirus were off. > > I had a look at my backup program schedule as well. It says every saturday > and sunday daily backup fails to run or fail to complete and Monday to > Friday backups reported as OK. This goes back several weeks. As far as I > know, nothing is differently setup for weekends the antivirus and backups > are set the same for every day. > > Gets more and more mysterious. > > Dilwyn > > -----Original Message----- From: Darren Branagh > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues > > Ok, so it's not a swap space issue then... > > Maybe try using msconfig to stop any of the AVG files running at startup, > and see does it run any better when you restart? If you do that, disconnect > your internet access temporarily to avoid getting a virus in the interim. > > Darren. > On 9 Oct 2014 14:47, "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > > C:\ 243GB free of 453GB >> D:\ 282GB free of 454GB >> backup drive 1.44TB free of 3.TB >> >> Dilwyn >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Darren Branagh >> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:34 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues >> >> Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :) >> >> Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you >> have on the drives? >> On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The ones generating most entries are: >> >>> >>> AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or stop >>> it (scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when >>> machine >>> is busy) >>> >>> BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external drive >>> is over 2TB so M$ backup won't work, in theory (hah!) this is disabled >>> temporarily - I think! no hard disk activity even though the process is >>> generating a lot of entries. >>> >>> svchost.exe (not sure what this is) >>> >>> monitor.exe (less than the other three) >>> >>> There are lots more processes listed, but very few entries compared to >>> these. >>> >>> Looks like it's the anti-virus but what is it up to since it's on minimum >>> settings and shouldn't be running at this time of day anyway (it's >>> normally >>> set to run overnight and not to run at startup if a scan has been missed) >>> >>> Dilwyn >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Marcel Kilgus >>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:54 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues >>> >>> Dilwyn Jones wrote: >>> >>> No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and >>> >>>> everything else in D: >>>> >>>> >>>> Okay, one more. Download and run the "Process monitor" tool from MS >>> and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might >>> be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing machine, though. >>> >>> Marcel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QL-Users Mailing List >>> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4040/8354 - Release Date: 10/09/14 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QL-Users Mailing List >>> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4040/8354 - Release Date: 10/09/14 >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> >> _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4765 / Virus Database: 4040/8354 - Release Date: 10/09/14 > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
